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It's like that episode of Family Guy where everyone is "finger raped" by the doc for a prostate exam then Peter actually has a prostate problem and no one will help him. Life really does imitate art, or is it life imitating art imitating life. Eh, it's still funny.

Oh dear...I wonder if he was embarassed to use the word 'anus' or 'rectum'. Some folks find the actual terms more distastful than the slang.

And sometimes doctors say things like that too. When my son was an infant, he had a suspected urinary infection. The doctor said he needed to put a tube in his "pee-hole". I was so embarassed for him and somewhat offended. What's wrong with urethra?! Maybe he was trying to be nice and not use the big medical lingo in front of us ignorant parents.

I got called to my sons' school when they were little guys to make sure they hadn't been molested or exposed to porn because they both called a penis a "penis" and asked to be excused to have a "B.M.". Even before I became a nurse we called a spade a spade, and not a portable personal entrenching tool.

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